PRINCESS CHARLOTTE has come under fire for flouting coronavirus measures when delivering food packages to vulnerable people near her home in Norfolk.

The Duchess of Cambridge, 38, released a series of photos of Princess Charlotte for her fifth birthday as the young royal helped organise bags of food for retired people in their community during the coronavirus pandemic. The bags included bags of pasta which the Cambridge family had spent the afternoon making. But the young royal has been criticised for not wearing any protective equipment while handling the bags.

Speaking on ITV’s Royal Rota, Chris Ship said: “The pictures that we got were actually taken on the Sandringham estate when Charlotte was doing some food drops to those who were isolating.

“Funnily enough, I had a few comments on social media wondering why she wasn’t wearing protection.

“I mean, as far as I’m aware, they were leaving food outside people’s front doors and not going into their homes or touching in any way.

“But interesting how the pictures that were released of Charlotte and Louis’ birthdays were linked to coronavirus and supporting the NHS or supporting those who are more vulnerable.”

Kate said she keeps in daily contact with family members via video calls and joked about the challenges of home schooling three children – including Prince George’s interest in spider sandwiches.

The duchess wants budding photographers and those who have never picked up a camera to take pictures for her Hold Still initiative – being run with the National Portrait Gallery – to “document and share a moment in time” that has been dubbed the “new normal”.

Interviewed on ITV’s This Morning show, Kate was asked about home schooling and mentioned the popular book Spider Sandwiches by Claire Freedman and how her eldest son finds it more interesting than his school tasks.

She said: “George gets very upset because he just wants to do all of Charlotte’s projects. Spider sandwiches are far cooler than literacy work.”

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed they chatted to the Queen via a video call to celebrate her 94th birthday in April, and Kate says she regularly chats face-to-face with loved ones via the internet.

She said: “We hadn’t done a huge amount of FaceTime and face calls and things like that, but obviously we’re doing that a lot more now and actually it’s been really great.

“We try and check in daily with family members and speak to them about news and things like that.

“In some ways I suppose we’ve got a lot more contact and a lot more face time than perhaps we would’ve done before.”